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Reposted from another thread:
The times I've had to personally deal with police it's been almost exclusively negative.

One time when I was assaulted with multiple witnesses, the cops that came didn't really believe me and weren't helpful at all until they got video footage, despite my wife and 3 good samaritans telling them I was just strangled. They took their dear sweet time getting there, giving the guy who attacked me ample time to get away. Then when they saw video evidence they all just sorta nodded and went "Oh yeah look at that". And even after that were just sorta non-chalant about it, even talking me out of calling an ambulance, even though I told them I was a retired EMT and figured it would be a good idea to call.

On a separate occasion, my wife driving alone late one night and was involved in an accident where some rowdy teenagers ran a read light (at a camera intersection mind you) and t-boned her. She was injured and hurt, and while we were waiting for EMS, the cops that appeared at the scene kept telling her over and over "Well can you REALLY be sure you're not the one who ran a red?" and guilting her because they wanted to know why she was driving so late at night. (Spoilers: video footage showed she had green, the kids had red). I know they need to be impartial, but really doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who's at fault between a group of four, giggling teen boys VS a lone, crying young woman.

And a third time in recent memory, my wife was driving the two of us home, got pulled over by a cop who said she blew a stop sign. From there get go, the dude was giving her an attitude over it, telling her she's lying, he watched her go through it at 30 mph, etc.. I was in the passenger seat the entire time, and I swear on my mother's life, she fucking stopped. The guy was just a dick. That stretch of road is notorious for people getting pulled over constantly for unfair tickets.

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